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Table 2. Referral routes

Service Blanket referral of all admissions

CHAT 5 Other induction screening

Referral form Other

1

No

Yes

No

Yes: Staff referral

No

2

No

Yes

No

Yes: Staff referral Self referral

Yes: Emails from community agencies Discussion with staff

3

No

Yes

No

Yes: Informally via education, casework, self- referral using set referral criteria

Table 3. Referral sources

Family

Community agencies

Other

Service Self-

Prison staff

Education Health

Other agencies within prison

referrals

1

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

3

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes: Youth offending services

Table 4 - SLCN Screening

Service

Primary care nurse

Other primary care professional

Mental health nurse

Other mental health professional

Education Prison

Young person

1

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

2

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

3

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Question 7: Who do you accept referrals from? Participants were asked to select all the options which applied to their service from the following list: self-referrals; prison staff; education; health; other agencies within the YOI; family and community agencies. Participants were asked to add other referral options if relevant. Interestingly, despite operating a referral process (as reported in question 6), all three services were inclusive in accepting referrals from a range of agencies, professionals Participants were required to select one choice from: yes, no, and sometimes. Service 2 reported that screening was sometimes conducted by the SLP. In contrast, the SLPs in services 1 and 3 did not complete any screening for SLCN. Question 9: Who completes screening assessments for SLCN? Participants were asked to select all options which applied to their service from the following list: primary care nurse; mental health nurse; other mental health-care professional; other primary health-care professional; education staff; prison staff; and young person. Participants were asked to add if there were any other staff group who also completed screening. and the young people themselves (see Table 3). Question 8: Is screening of SLCN completed by an SLT?

All three services reported that screening for SLCN was completed by mental health professionals and education staff (see Table 4). Question 10: What assessment tools do you use? Participants were asked to list all assessment tools used. The three services reported using a range of speech, language and communication assessments (see Table 5). The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals 4-UK (CELF 4-UK) (Semel, Wiig, & Secord, 2006) was used in all three services, with the non-standardised Broadmoor Screening Assessment (Bryan, 1998) used in services 1 and 2. Services 1 and 3 used a local assessment developed in-service. Service 2 reported using the widest range of assessment tools including assessments of autism and speech. Question 11: How are interventions provided? Participants were asked to indicate on a Likert scale (1–10) whether intervention was predominantly individually delivered or at a group level. In each service, interventions were provided however the method of delivery differed (see Table 6). The predominant model of SLP intervention was individual in services 2 and 3. Service 1’s intervention was divided equally between individual and group delivery. Question 12: What SLT interventions do you offer? Participants were asked to list as many options as applicable (shown in Table 7). Participants were asked to

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